We've all heard of the Olympics. But for nomadic sportspeople who traditionally compete on horseback, with bow and arrow, or with trusty eagles, the World Nomad Games are the ultimate test of ...

Sign up for a free seven-day trial of SI TV to watch “The Lost Games,” a documentary about the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. When talking GOATs in American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, a women releases an arrow during an archery competition during the Third Nomad ...

ALMATY – Kazakhstan marks National Sports Day on March 20 as part of the Nauryznama celebrations, highlighting traditional ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- How to find a thousand komuz players and gather them all in one place? Such is the type of unusual demand placed on organizers of the World Nomad Games, a now decade-old ...

The first-ever World Nomad Games took place in Kyrgyzstan, September 9-14. In horse wrestling (pictured), two opponents try to pull each other off their mounts. Kyrgyzstan took home the gold medal in ...

Two bare-chested men on horseback wrestle. The goal is to pull your opponent off the horse so a part of his body touches the ground. Three dogs chase a dummy clad in a fox or hare skin to see who's ...

From ladies loosing arrows at full gallop to grandmas rocking up to the venue on yaks, here are some of the women wowing the crowds at the third World Nomad Games in the Kyrchyn Gorge, Kyrgyzstan. 1 ...

Astana, Kazakhstan, is a city of the vast, wide-open steppe, born from the imagination of people who have no limitations of space. Buildings are thrown across the land like giant dice, ignoring ...